English posts from Jingxuan Kang. https://blog.jingxuan.uk/en en-US <h2 id="why-a-blog">Why a blog</h2> <p>Three years into my PhD, I’ve accumulated far too many scattered notes across Obsidian, Notion, phone screenshots, and random <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">tmp.md</code> files. Every time I want to find that “interesting thought” from six months ago, it’s gone.</p> <p>This blog exists for a simple reason: <strong>to put the things worth revisiting into one stable place</strong>. If someone else finds them useful, that’s a nice bonus.</p> <h2 id="what-will-be-here">What will be here</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Academic</strong> — paper notes, research observations, things I’ve learned the hard way.</li> <li><strong>Tech</strong> — engineering problems, new tools, AI experiments.</li> <li><strong>Life</strong> — London, books, films, passing thoughts.</li> <li><strong>Projects</strong> — side project build logs.</li> </ul> <h2 id="about-the-blog-itself">About the blog itself</h2> <p>Building this was a fun engineering exercise:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Frontend</strong>: Jekyll static site on Cloudflare Pages, theme adapted from <a href="https://github.com/tw93/tw93.github.io">tw93/cosy-jekyll-theme</a> (MIT, thanks).</li> <li><strong>Backend</strong>: Separate admin at <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">admin.jingxuan.uk</code>, with Novel as the WYSIWYG editor and Hono on Cloudflare Workers for the API.</li> <li><strong>Publishing</strong>: Admin converts posts to Markdown and commits to the blog repo via the GitHub Contents API, which triggers a Cloudflare Pages rebuild.</li> <li><strong>Comments</strong>: Giscus (readers sign in with GitHub to comment).</li> </ul> <p>I’ll write a proper post-mortem once it’s been running a while. For now, this post just plants the flag.</p> <hr /> <p>Comments welcome.</p> 2026-04-19 https://blog.jingxuan.uk/en/2026-04-19/hello-world.html https://blog.jingxuan.uk/en/2026-04-19/hello-world.html